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Leaf by Niggle I

Published: Oct 22, 2016

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"There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots. Strange birds came and settled on the twigs and had to be attended to. [...] Niggle lost interest in his other pictures, or else he took them and tacked them onto the edges of his great picture. Soon the canvas became so large that he had to get a ladder, and he ran up and down it, putting in a touch here and rubbing out a patch there."

J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle. Tales from the perilous realm, p. 286.

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Dulliros

Dec 12, 2016

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Ich kenne die Geschichte nicht, aber Deine Illustrationen erzählen genug, dass ich mir vorstellen kann, worum es geht.
Ich kann vom altmodischen Charme dieser Bilder überhaupt nicht genug kriegen. Bitte mehr davon

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